Patras World Poetry Festival 2022

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5h “Patras World Poetry Festival”

“From Hippocrates to poetry therapy”

1 – 4/09/2022 PATRAS – ANCIENT OLYMPIA

 

 

Along with many other important international participations and a rich event programme, this year, the 5th “Patras World Poetry Festival” is going to be held between the 1 and 4 of September, in different cultural locations of Patras and not only.

After two years of online realization of the Festival, Patras is again glad to receive in person 65 important poets from 13 different countries, 20 among them, being poets from abroad. This year’s programme has in store many surprises for the participants and for the audience, with visits and poetry recitations in particular places and in alternative ways.

The subject area of PWPF2022 concerns the healing properties of art and especially of poetry and it is entitled “From Hippocrates to poetry therapy”, so the complete action programme was planned with the purpose of creating a back – to - back interaction of arts, poetry and psychology.

The events are going to take place in the mornings and in the evenings in different locations of Patras every time, such as the Epikentro Theatre, the Foundation of Hellenic Diaspora, Achaia Clauss Winery  and the Villa of Kolla, while the last recitation is going to take place in Ancient Olympia through an all – day excursion of experiential character. The programme includes further guided tours, food and wine tasting and activities of cultural tourism, in order for the visitors to obtain the best possible experience from our land!

Ιmportant guests participate at the events, among them ambassadors of collaborating countries, internationally renowned academics, belletrists and representatives of entities.

Special moments of the Festival are the tribute to the poet Titos Patrikios, the Round Table with the subject “Healing through Poetry”, the visit at the “Foundation of Hellenic Diaspora” with its art exhibitions from important emigrant Greek artists and the set to music poetry event, entitled “Like a Shiver...”, which is going to take place at the Honorable Evening of the Festival.

All the events are open for the audience with FREE entrance.

 

At the same time. The Festival converses with visual arts and hosts two visual and one photographical project.

  • Art Platform | Lagrange Points

In passing of the collaboration of the contemporary art gallery “Cube Gallery” and Liana Zoza as a curator, with Patras World Poetry Festival, the art platform “Lagrange Points” was created.

The idea came up simultaneously with the proposition for the presentation of the two on going art projects “Open Studio” and “Invisible cities”, during the Festival and under the common title “L3 point”, at the same time with the desire for the continuation of the creative meetings of all forms of art.

Even if the term is a loan from the mechanics of celestial bodies, which discusses the rules of equilibrium and affinity of their relationship and coexistence, it also works with the same equilibrium at the coexistence of different art forms.

 

  • Peny Delta poet portraits

During the Festival, the photographer Peny Delta is going to create the portraits of the participant at the Festival poets and poetesses, which are going to be used at the archive of the Poetry Office and in the related publishing of the Festival.

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The World Patras Poetry Festival is organized by the “Poetry Office” of Patras and the CultureBook (Culturebook.gr), with the support of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Region of Western Greece, the Regional Union of Municipalities of Western Greece, the the University of Patras, the University of Western Macedonia, the Hellenic Open University, the Poetry Festival of Larnaka, the Embassy of Hungary, the Embassy of Czech Republic and the Athens Czech Center,  the Embassy of Poland, the Greek Library of London, the World Poetry Movement, the Epikentro Theatre, the Cube Gallery and other entities. It is under the evaluation of Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Tourism.

 

Patras World Poetry Festival forms one of the greatest literature institutions in Greece, the greatest of the Region, and has already stood out amongst the most estimable Festivals all over the world. Each year it receives important names of world literature and it offers an abundant programme of events, including poetry readings, presentations, meetings and cultural galas. Its vision is to promote the Greek literary creation globally and to popularize the capital of West Greece as a European literature center. Through its actions, it communicates with Chairs of Hellenic studies all over the world and it catalogues the recent poetry production.

 

*The organising of the Festival has a non-profitable character in every aspect and the participation of the people is costless.

 

CONCERT IDENTITY

POETRY SET TO MUSIC

“Like a Shiver...”

 

Like the way a note touches the word,

And oxygen life.

Music fights against verse, in a fight for love, man, society, existence, love, hate, passion and nature.

 

Participants:

Yorgos Georgiadis, Mandolin (evikoon melos)

Sani Peta, Mandolin (evikoon melos)

Yannis Anagnostopoulos, Guitar

Thomas Pallas, Guitar

Andreas Zafiropoulos, Piano

Themis Martekas, Percussion

 

Interpretation:

Hristos Konstantopoulos

Dora Mpeleri

 

Artistic curation

Yannis Anagnostopoulos

 

 

Orchestrations

Yannis Anagnostopoulos

Yorgos Georgiadis

 

 

PROGRAMME

5th PATRAS WORLD POETRY FESTIVAL

 

THURSDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2022

20.00 // Theatre Epikentro+

Welcome Drink

1st Cycle of Poetic Readings

Presentation L3 point: on going art projects “Open Studio” & amp “Invisible Cities”

Dinner for the participants

 

FRIDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2022

11.00 // Theatre Epikentro

2nd Cycle of Poetic Readings

Round Table on the subject “The Healing Properties of Poetry”

Free Programme – Knowing the City

 

19.00 // Winery Achaia Clauss

Guided tour at the Winecastle

3rd Cycle of Poetic Readings

Dinner for the participants

 

SATURDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2022

11.00 // Foundation Greek Diaspora, Kastritsi

Guided Tour at the Exhibition of Greek artists of Diaspora

4th Cycle of Poetic Readings

Lunch for the participants

 

20.00 // Villa Kolla

Formal Ceremony

Greetings – speeches

5th Cycle of Poetic Readings

Honorable Evening for Titos Patrikios

Concert with Poetry set to Music “Like a Shiver...”

Official Reception at Achaia Clauss

 

SUNDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2022

09.00-20.00 // Ancient Olympia

Excursion to Ancient Olympia

Guided Tour at the archaeological site

Visit of the Digital Museum 1821 – Krestena

15.00 // Lunch for the Participants

17.30 // 6th Cycle of Poetic Readings

 

The programme also includes:

 

- Tribute “meet the poets” from Culturebook.gr: presentation of the participants and diffusion in social networks

- Anthology of the Festival. Offspring of the organization and a literature consignment constitutes the collective trilingual Edition (and e- book) with the poems of the participants, in each one’s language, in Greek and in English.

- Art Platform | Lagrange Points / simultaneously with the presentation of the participants at the Culturebook.gr the art platform Lagrange Points is created

- Peny Delta poet portaits / During the Festival, the photographer Peny Delta is going to create the portraits of the participant poets and poetesses, which are also going to be used at the relevant publication of the Festival

 

 

PARTICIPANTS

 

ALBANIA     Alma Braja

BULGARY    Roman Kissiov, Nadya Radulova

ITALY            Matthias Tarantino

CZECH REPUBLIC Josef Hrdlička, Jan Škrob, Tim Postovit

CROATIAN   Marija Dejanović

CYPRUS        Eleni Artemiou-Fotiadou

HUNGARY    Weiner Sennyei Tibor, Izsó Zita, Bek Timur

NORTH MACEDONIA  Michailo Svidersky, Andrej Al Asadi, Gjoko Zdraveski

POLAND        Anna Adamowicz, Antonina Tosiek

SERBIA          Ana Marija Grbić

SLOVENIA    Petra Kolmancic

USA                Don Schofield

 

GREECE

Kyriaki-Koula Adaloglou, Giannis Alexandropoulos, Popi Aroniada, Anna Afentoulidou, Spyros L. Vrettos, Thanos Gogos, Yiannis Doukas, Lena Kallergi,, Dimitris Kalokiris , Kostas Kanavouris, Menelaos Karalis, Christos Katroutsos, Nikos Katsalidas, Giorgos Kozias,, Alexandros Kordas, Elsa Korneti, Dimitris Kosmopoulos, Giorgos Koutouvelas, Chloe Koutsoumpeli, Kostas A. Kremmydas, Triantafyllos H. Kotopoulos, Vasilis Ladas, Konstantinos Ch. Loukopoulos, Alexandra Bakonika, Theocharis Bikiropoulos, Konstantinos Bouras, Vasilis Pandis, Theofanis Papageorgiou, Sotirios Pastakas, Titos Patrikios, Aggeliki Pechlivani, Eleni Sigalou, Angeliki Sidira Papakosta, Antonis D. Skiathas, Yannis Stefanakis, Manos Stefanidis, Vangelis Tasiopoulos, John Tolias, Lina Fitili, Thanassis Hatzopoulos

 

 

 

Statement of Antonis Skiathas (President of the Poetry Office)

The Patras World Poetry Festival has created an international institution of literature that honors Greek letters, promotes Greek poetry and brings in contact Greek poets and poetesses with related poets and poetesses from all over the world.

Along its way, poets and poetesses from fifty countries have conversed at the Patras World Poetry Festival.

It is extremely important for all of us at the Poetry Office that the Festival is a matter of the whole town, as panhellenic, regional, local, institutions, businesses, citizens stand for the organising by every means.

The Ministry of Culture, the Region of Western Greece and the University of Patras are some of the institutions that support it.

The publishing that is been organized and the events at emblematic locations of the wider area like Achaia Clauss, the museum Diaspora, form the Festival’s identity.

At the same time, the synergism with cultural institutions and the connection of Poetry with other arts like music, visual arts, photography create all things that make the Festival unique.

 

Kyriaki-Koula Adaloglou, Greece

Kyriaki-Koula Adaloglou, Greece

Kyriaki-Koula Adaloglou, Greece

 Messages to Odysseus 

As if it were summer

The Poems

Messages to Odysseus

First Draft


Dear Odysseus

The suitors have all left
some you sorted (cleaned) out, some ran away
No one left, not one to flatter my vanity

For twelve whole years you licked the boots
Of that short, horse-faced slut.
In the meantime, I grew older
Somewhat changed -
hips rounded, proud body
Shattered

You come back looking for – new – love games
My modified self gives in
Do I owe you a favour
If only I had a real man for suitor
To punish you

Option: Delete

Second draft

Dear Odysseus

I write this on the laptop you got me
Like an eel you slip away, not one chance missed
Still
You were here when the storm broke
you poured your love on my broken body
kissed the surreal shapes of my face
kept alive the desire
in a worthy manner

Which is why I forgive you
I owe you deep gratitude

(This space is outside my comfort zone
I am not sure I'll send this email)

(Odysseus, somehow, published by Sakespearikon, 2018. Translation: Katy Loogotheti-Anderson)


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Μηνύματα στον Οδυσσέα

Πρώτη γραφή

Αγαπημένε μου Οδυσσέα,
Έφυγαν όλοι οι μνηστήρες,
άλλους τούς τέλεψες και κάποιοι λάκισαν.
Ούτε ένας, να κολακευόμουν έστω.

Δώδεκα χρόνια έγλειφες τις γόβες της –
κοντή κι αλογομούρα.
Στο μεταξύ μεγάλωσα,
σαν μεταλλάχτηκα,
κάθισε η περιφέρεια,
γιάγμα η κορμοστασιά μου.

Γυρνάς και θέλεις γούστα.
Κι εγώ η μεταλλαγμένη υποχωρώ,
σχεδόν χρωστώ και χάρη.
Να 'χα έναν αληθοφανή μνηστήρα, να σε τιμωρήσω.

Επιλογή: Delete

Δεύτερη γραφή

Αγαπημένε μου Οδυσσέα,
Γράφω στο λάπτοπ που μου πήρες.
Ξεγλιστράς, δεν χάνεις ευκαιρία.
Όμως
ήσουν εδώ σαν ξέσπασε η μπόρα.
Το τεθλασμένο σώμα μου το λάτρεψες
τη σουρεαλιστική μορφή μου ασπάστηκες
αξιέπαινα συντήρησες τον πόθο.

Γι' αυτό σε συγχωρώ.
Βαθιά χρωστώ ευγνωμοσύνη.

(Έγινε άβολoς αυτός ο χώρος.
Δεν ξέρω αν θα στείλω το e-mail.)

(Οδυσσέας, τρόπον τινά, εκδ. Σαιξπηρικόν, 2013)


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As if it were summer

It's raining I'm walking on the beach
my umbrella is blowing in shambles
grey and turbulent the sea
A little later I hear about the shipwreck, again.
The waters are filled with death.
I want my islands back.
These seas will forever carry their heavy burden.
fish knocked up evil
glass eyes will stare at the reflection of dead dreams.
And the dark skin on the shores a rejoicing guilt.
And not being able to hold your hand on the edge of the dry field.
Lover of distance, of train tracks and flight paths.
You fooled me when you played the lover of green.
In grey markets you are exhibited
In frozen squares you wander
the day is blackening
Mourning the unknown.

(The Age of Touch, Shakespearikon Edition, 2016. Translation: Xanthi Hondrou-Hill)


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Σαν να 'ταν καλοκαίρι

Βρέχει περπατώ στην παραλία
φυσά δυνατά η ομπρέλα μου σμπαράλια
γκρίζα και ταραγμένη η θάλασσα
λίγο αργότερα ακούω για το ναυάγιο, και πάλι.
Γέμισαν τα νερά θάνατο.
Θέλω πίσω τα νησιά μου.
Αυτές οι θάλασσες θα κουβαλούν για πάντα το βαρύ φορτίο τους.
ψάρια γκαστρωμένα κακό
γυάλινα μάτια θα κοιτάζουν την αντανάκλαση των νεκρών ονείρων.
Και το σκούρο δέρμα στις ακτές μια χαίνουσα ενοχή.
Και να μην μπορώ να σου κρατήσω το χέρι στην άκρη του ξεροχώραφου.
Εραστή της απομάκρυνσης, των διαδρομών του τρένου και των πτήσεων.
Με γέλασες όταν παρίστανες τον εραστή του πράσινου.
Σε γκρίζες αγορές εκτίθεσαι
σε παγωμένες πλατείες πλανιέσαι
μαυρίζει η μέρα
μοιρολογεί το άγνωστο.

(Εποχή αφής, εκδ. Σαιξπηρικόν, 2016)




The Poet

Kyriaki-Koula Adaloglou was born in Veria, Greece. She studied Modern Greek Language and Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She obtained an MSc in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Language Teaching from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her monograph The written expression of students. Recommendations for its evaluation and improvement, 2007, focuses on writing as a process. She is a member of the Hellenic Authors' Society, member of the Poets' Circle, and the Thessaloniki's Authors' Society. She lives in Thessaloniki. She has published eight poetry books, the last of which bears the title Because the future is a small dot, 2018. She has also published a collection of short stories entitled A pale sun has risen, 2012. In 2019 she published a volume containing her reviews of the literary work of 49 authors, entitled Texture of Writing, Aspects of TextsThe poetry collection The road back home is precipitous is under publication, Melani Publ.

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Η Κυριακή-Κούλα Αδαλόγλου γεννήθηκε στη Βέροια, Ελλάδα. Σπούδασε Φιλολογία στο Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης. Πήρε Mεταπτυχιακό στην Εφαρμοσμένη Γλωσσολογία από το Πανεπιστήμιο του Εδιμβούργου και Διδακτορικό Δίπλωμα από το Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης. Η μελέτη της «Η γραπτή έκφραση των μαθητών. Προτάσεις για την αξιολόγηση και τη βελτίωσή της», εκδ. Κέδρος 2007, εστιάζει στο γράψιμο ως διαδικασία. Είναι μέλος της Εταιρείας Συγγραφέων. Μέλος της Εταιρίας Λογοτεχνών Θεσσαλονίκης (ΕΛΘ). Μέλος του Κύκλου Ποιητών. Εξέδωσε οχτώ ποιητικές συλλογές, τελευταία η Γιατί το μέλλον μια μικρή κουκίδα, εκδ. Σαιξπηρικόν, 2018. Επίσης, μία συλλογή διηγημάτων: Βγήκε ένας ήλιος χλωμός, εκδ. Ταξιδευτής, 2012. Το 2019 συγκέντρωσε σε τόμο κριτικά της σημειώματα για 49 λογοτέχνες, με τον τίτλο Νήματα της γραφής, πτυχές κειμένων. Υπό έκδοση, η ποιητική συλλογή Ο δρόμος της επιστροφής είναι απόκρημνος, εκδ. Μελάνι

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